October 26, 2025 • 12 mins
Medhat, a young man in Egypt, plotted the murder of his wealthy father, Mr. Kamal, in 2012. Initially, he enlisted two accomplices, Yaacoub and Adel, to stage a robbery intended to kill his father, but the first attempt only resulted in theft. Undeterred, Medhat devised a second plan, exploiting a moment when his father opened the door, allowing the accomplices to carry out the fatal attack. Investigators initially treated the crime as a robbery, but inconsistencies in Medhat’s alibi, suspicious behavior, and his strained relationship with his father over money and inheritance raised red flags. Phone records and recovered stolen items ultimately linked Medhat to the murder plot. He confessed, and all three conspirators were sentenced to death.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Imagine this. It's late Friday night, hell Wan, Egypt, around
ten pm. You hear keys turning in a lock, a
heavy new iron lock. That sound it should mean safety
right home.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Exactly the end of the week, But tonight that click
echoes into silence. The door opens, not to comfort, but
to chaos. The immediate shock belonging scattered everywhere, a.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Scene of violation, and it draws you inevitably towards the bedroom.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And that's where the real horror lies. Mister Kamal, a
well respected man, a banking executive. He's faced down on
the bed.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
His hands are bound. The scene. It's brutal, and there's
a pillowcase twisted tight around his neck. The sheer violence
of it screams something more than robbery.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh absolutely. The police when they arrived, they saw the overkill.
They knew straightaway this wasn't just some random break in
gone bad. This felt personal, like an assassination staged as
something else.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So for this deep dive, we're looking beyond the surface.
This isn't just about greed, though that's part of it.
It's about a relationship, a father son dynamic that became
incredibly toxic.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Corrosive is the word, a father who perhaps gave too much,
and a son who came to see him as well.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
An obstacle, an obstacle to be removed. The evidence suggests calculation,
a coldness that's frankly chilling. Let's get into it.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Okay, First, let's understand the victim. Mister Kamal, high ranking
bank employee, stable, successful, lived in the same area, hell
One for more than twenty five years. Seemed like a
solid life from the outside, but.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Inside the family unit things were strained. There were marital problems,
serious enough that the mother was actually planning to immigrate
to the US for the whole family.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Right, and here's a critical point. Everyone got their visa
approvals except the son. Mehat. He was twenty two, studying
tourism and hotels.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Why was he rejected?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
The embassy flagged him concerns about his conduct? Maybe unstable
behavior was the term used. He had this reputation, the
failing son, successful only among well the wrong crowd associates.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
That's tough, especially when you compare him to.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
His sister exactly. The sister was the success story, good
job at a major company. Mister Kamal apparently wished med
How could be more like her.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Which probably just fueled more resentment.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And mister Kamal he seemed caught in this trap. He
indulged manhad constantly money whatever he asked for. Maybe he
felt guilty, like maybe he was responsible for Med had
struggles because he'd been too easy on him. Classic enabling.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Really yeah, you see that. Sometimes fear of failing as
a parent leads to well this making things worse, and
the sister often got caught in the middle.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
She did made it, had would go to her for
money or try and influence the father. She was the
mediator but also another resource for Med had to tap.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay, so the fall lines are clear. Resentment, financial dependence,
maybe a sense of failure. It's a volatile mix.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
And it erupted before the murder. There was let's call
it address rehearsal hashtag tag tag the dress hustle.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
The first attempt right, This happened earlier in twenty twelve.
Tell us about that.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
It was morning, mister Kamal was home alone, the kids
were out. Two young men knock on the door. They
claim they're there about an ad to rent the garage.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Seems innocent enough.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Maybe mister Kamal lets them in. Mistake. They immediately pull knives,
demand bank cards where the cash is kept. Standard robbery
stuff but violent. They hit him over the head hard
enough to knock him.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Out, and they took off scrash ash the.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Bank cards naturally, but also interestingly a video camera. Then
they fled.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Okay, So mister Kamal wakes up later.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
But about half an hour later, Yeah, he's dazed, calls
his daughter first, she rushes over. Met Hoot gets there
a bit later, apparently coming from college.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
And Medhot plays the part shocked concerned son.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Perfectly participates in the police report. Everything seems normal, but
then mister Kamal says something crucial.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
What was that?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
He tells met Hoot and his sister basically, don't worry
too much about the cards. I called the bank right
away canceled everything. They're useless now.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Ah And did anyone notice Medhot's reaction?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Apparently not at the time, but investigators later considered this
moment pivotal. They believe there must have been a flicker,
just a split second of panic or frustration on Medot's
face when he heard the money plan was.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Dead, because if he was involved, that meant the whole
thing was for nothing, the risk, the violence pointless exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
The quick score failed and the target survived.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
That changes things, and mister Kamal's response wasn't just calling
the bank, was it. He took physical.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Precautions big time. He installed heavy duty iron security doors
on the apartment itself, the main building entrance, even the
rooftop access. He fortified the.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Place, trying to protect himself, but maybe maybe sealing himself in.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
In a way. Yes, he made casual entry impossible, which
meant any future attempt would require a much more sophisticated
or insidious plan. Hashtag tags tag the fatal Friday and
the flaws.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
So a month goes by after that first attack, mister
Komal can't identify the attackers from photos. Life gets a
semblance of normalcy behind those new iron doors.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Until the following Friday, a family day off.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
In Egypt, and this is where Metot's actions become incredibly calculated.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Absolutely around five pm, he calls his sister, suggests they
go visit their aunt, spend the evening there together.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Creating an alibi, a shared one.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
A seemingly perfect one. From five pm until ten pm,
he's accounted for. With his sister, they return home together
at ten pm and discover the horrific scene we described earlier.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
But the police investigation immediately flags something odd, didn't they Those.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Doors, those heavy new iron doors, No scratches, no dents,
no bent frames, zero signs of forced entry.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Which is impossible if it was a robbery by strangers, Right,
you can't just walk through solid iron correct.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It immediately told investigators the killer or killers didn't break in,
They were let in.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That points the finger inwards, doesn't it towards someone mister
Kamal knew trusted.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Combined with the sheer brutality, the six stab wounds, the
multiple injuries, it felt personal, like rage revenge, not just
a robbery gone wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
And the forensics delivered that final chilling piece.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, the forensic report was unambiguous. The bruising on mister
Kamal's neck, the marks from the pillowcase used for strangulation.
They were inflicted after he was already dead from the
stab boys.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Someone choked a corpse.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
What confirmation? Maybe a final act of desecration. It's hard
to say for sure that it speaks volumes about the
state of mind of whoever did it. It's deeply unsettling.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So the police start digging into the family dynamics.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
And they quickly learn about the arguments, the constant friction
between mehd Hut and his father, mostly over money, and crucially,
they discover mister Kamal was taking steps steps. He was
in the process of transferring most of his assets to
his daughter. He profoundly distrusted Medhot with money.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
He saw the pattern, so Medhut potentially saw his inheritance
slipping away.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
A motive crystallizes a powerful one, and then the alibi cracked.
How Metack claimed he left the house early that Friday morning,
went about his day, met his sister at five pm.
But people in the neighbor, local residents, they saw him
leave the family home at four pm.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
An hour before he supposedly met a sister, an.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Hour unaccounted for him, right before the murder likely happened.
A crucial window hashtag tagg the truth unveiled.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
That missing hour. Where did the police look next?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
His phone records for that specific timeframe and bingo two
calls made around two pm that Friday. Who are the
calls to two young men Adele and Yakoub, both twenty two,
working low age jobs drivers laborers. Remember the description of
the first attackers.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
The two young men involved in the earlier robbery attempt,
the very same.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
The police locate Adele and Yakoob, bring them in and
a search of Adele's place turns up everything. What did
they find the stolen bank cards from the first attempt,
mister Kamal's mobile phone taken during the murder. And remember
that video camera stolen initially, Yeah, they found that too.
They tied both incidents together perfectly.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So Adele and Yakoub confessed they did.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
They admitted to the murder, but they insisted on one thing.
They didn't plan it, and hot did.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
He was the mastermind, and it recruited them.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
How he'd apparently met them at church, befriended them. He
promised them a significant amount of money, sixty thousand Egyptian
pounds each to be paid from his inheritance after his
father was dead.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
A huge sum for them, I imagine, But just money
Is that enough to convince someone to commit murder?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Probably not on its own. Manhattan knew that, so he
didn't just offer money. He offered justification. He manipulated them.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
How what did he tell them?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
He painted his father as a terrible person, claimed mister
Kamal was cheating on his mother, bringing strange women back
to the house, and using that stolen video camera to
film these encounters. He created a false narrative where killing
his father wasn't just about money, it was almost righteous
dealing with a morally corrupt man.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Wow, that's incredibly manipulative, turning parricide into some kind of
twisted justice.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
He gave them the psychological permission they needed. Perhaps still
had a practical problem those iron doors.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Right, the first plan failed because they couldn't get the
money easily. The second plan needed to overcome the physical security.
How did metaht solve that?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
His solution was horrifyingly clever because it prayed directly on
mister Kamal's love for his son.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Explain the plan?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Okay, So on that Friday, Medhot leaves the house, normally
tells his daddy's off to meet friends, standard routine h
But then just five minutes later he comes back.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
He knocks on the door and mister Kamal opens it,
expecting his son.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
He opens the inner door, yes, but what he sees
isn't just med Hot. He sees Medhot flanked by Adele
and Yakoub, and they have knives not pointed at mister Kamal.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
No pointed out Medha exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Knives to mid Hoot's throat inside the ultimate deception. The
threat wasn't agaves mister Kamal directly. It was let us
in or we kill your son right here.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Oh my god. So mister Kamal, thinking he's saving Medhot's life, he.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Opens the main security door. He does the one thing
he thinks will protect his child, and in doing so,
seals his own fate. It's pure psychological exploitation that.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Is just devastating, using a father's protective instinct as the
key to unlock his own murder.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Once inside, Adele and Yakoub overpowered, mister Kamal took him
to the bedroom and stabbed him repeatedly.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And Medhot where was he?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
He stayed back in the hall. He wasn't directly involved
in the physical act of stabbing, keeping his hands technically clean,
you could say.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
But he didn't leave it there, did he the pillowcase.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
No, After Adele and Yakub were done, MadHat himself went
into the bedroom. He took the pillowcase and he personally
choked his father's body.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
After he was already dead.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yes, He later told the accomplices he needed to be
absolutely sure this time, referencing the failure of the first attempt.
He needed that final physical confirmation.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
An act of extreme calculation and utter finality.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Than what then the cleanup. They stole cash, jewelry, items
that were actually intended for this sister, and Medhot coolly
proceeds with his plan, makes a five PM called to
his sister, establishes his alibi, spends the evening at the
ant house, and returns at ten pm to discover the
crime scene and playing the shocked grieving son hashtag tag outro.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
It's just the layers of deception are staggering. This wasn't
a crime of passion or even simple greed. It was
a meticulously planned execution.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Absolutely driven by resentment, financial desperation, sure, but executed with
chilling precision, exploiting the very core of the father son bond,
that protective instinct to achieve.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
His goal, and that final act, the post mortem strangulation.
It speaks to a level of detachment that's hard to comprehend,
ensuring the obstacle was gone permanently.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
And the ultimate irony, isn't it The very character flaws
the instability that got met Hot rejected by the US embassy.
Those were the same flaws that made his father distrust
him with money. That distrust led the father to protect
his assets by favoring the daughter, which.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Likely pushed Medhat over the edge and motivated the murder
in the first place. It's a tragic, self fulfilling prophecy.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Almost completely. His own family, by the way, disowned him
publicly even before the final core verdict came down. They
saw the truth.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It leaves you thinking, doesn't it. How does parental love,
even if it manifests this enabling get twisted into the
very weapon used for destruction.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
That transition from enabling a child's dependency to becoming the
target of their ultimate betrayal. Yeah, foundly disturbing.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
How many years does that resentment have to build for
a son to look at his father and see just
an obstacle, something to be systematically brutally erased, something for
you to ponder
Imagine this. It's late Friday night, hell Wan, Egypt, around
ten pm. You hear keys turning in a lock, a
heavy new iron lock. That sound it should mean safety
right home.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Exactly the end of the week, But tonight that click
echoes into silence. The door opens, not to comfort, but
to chaos. The immediate shock belonging scattered everywhere, a.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Scene of violation, and it draws you inevitably towards the bedroom.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And that's where the real horror lies. Mister Kamal, a
well respected man, a banking executive. He's faced down on
the bed.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
His hands are bound. The scene. It's brutal, and there's
a pillowcase twisted tight around his neck. The sheer violence
of it screams something more than robbery.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Oh absolutely. The police when they arrived, they saw the overkill.
They knew straightaway this wasn't just some random break in
gone bad. This felt personal, like an assassination staged as
something else.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So for this deep dive, we're looking beyond the surface.
This isn't just about greed, though that's part of it.
It's about a relationship, a father son dynamic that became
incredibly toxic.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Corrosive is the word, a father who perhaps gave too much,
and a son who came to see him as well.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
An obstacle, an obstacle to be removed. The evidence suggests calculation,
a coldness that's frankly chilling. Let's get into it.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Okay, First, let's understand the victim. Mister Kamal, high ranking
bank employee, stable, successful, lived in the same area, hell
One for more than twenty five years. Seemed like a
solid life from the outside, but.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Inside the family unit things were strained. There were marital problems,
serious enough that the mother was actually planning to immigrate
to the US for the whole family.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Right, and here's a critical point. Everyone got their visa
approvals except the son. Mehat. He was twenty two, studying
tourism and hotels.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Why was he rejected?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
The embassy flagged him concerns about his conduct? Maybe unstable
behavior was the term used. He had this reputation, the
failing son, successful only among well the wrong crowd associates.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
That's tough, especially when you compare him to.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
His sister exactly. The sister was the success story, good
job at a major company. Mister Kamal apparently wished med
How could be more like her.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Which probably just fueled more resentment.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And mister Kamal he seemed caught in this trap. He
indulged manhad constantly money whatever he asked for. Maybe he
felt guilty, like maybe he was responsible for Med had
struggles because he'd been too easy on him. Classic enabling.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Really yeah, you see that. Sometimes fear of failing as
a parent leads to well this making things worse, and
the sister often got caught in the middle.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
She did made it, had would go to her for
money or try and influence the father. She was the
mediator but also another resource for Med had to tap.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay, so the fall lines are clear. Resentment, financial dependence,
maybe a sense of failure. It's a volatile mix.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
And it erupted before the murder. There was let's call
it address rehearsal hashtag tag tag the dress hustle.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
The first attempt right, This happened earlier in twenty twelve.
Tell us about that.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
It was morning, mister Kamal was home alone, the kids
were out. Two young men knock on the door. They
claim they're there about an ad to rent the garage.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Seems innocent enough.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Maybe mister Kamal lets them in. Mistake. They immediately pull knives,
demand bank cards where the cash is kept. Standard robbery
stuff but violent. They hit him over the head hard
enough to knock him.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Out, and they took off scrash ash the.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Bank cards naturally, but also interestingly a video camera. Then
they fled.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Okay, So mister Kamal wakes up later.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
But about half an hour later, Yeah, he's dazed, calls
his daughter first, she rushes over. Met Hoot gets there
a bit later, apparently coming from college.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
And Medhot plays the part shocked concerned son.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Perfectly participates in the police report. Everything seems normal, but
then mister Kamal says something crucial.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
What was that?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
He tells met Hoot and his sister basically, don't worry
too much about the cards. I called the bank right
away canceled everything. They're useless now.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Ah And did anyone notice Medhot's reaction?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Apparently not at the time, but investigators later considered this
moment pivotal. They believe there must have been a flicker,
just a split second of panic or frustration on Medot's
face when he heard the money plan was.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Dead, because if he was involved, that meant the whole
thing was for nothing, the risk, the violence pointless exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
The quick score failed and the target survived.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
That changes things, and mister Kamal's response wasn't just calling
the bank, was it. He took physical.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Precautions big time. He installed heavy duty iron security doors
on the apartment itself, the main building entrance, even the
rooftop access. He fortified the.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Place, trying to protect himself, but maybe maybe sealing himself in.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
In a way. Yes, he made casual entry impossible, which
meant any future attempt would require a much more sophisticated
or insidious plan. Hashtag tags tag the fatal Friday and
the flaws.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
So a month goes by after that first attack, mister
Komal can't identify the attackers from photos. Life gets a
semblance of normalcy behind those new iron doors.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Until the following Friday, a family day off.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
In Egypt, and this is where Metot's actions become incredibly calculated.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Absolutely around five pm, he calls his sister, suggests they
go visit their aunt, spend the evening there together.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Creating an alibi, a shared one.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
A seemingly perfect one. From five pm until ten pm,
he's accounted for. With his sister, they return home together
at ten pm and discover the horrific scene we described earlier.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
But the police investigation immediately flags something odd, didn't they Those.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Doors, those heavy new iron doors, No scratches, no dents,
no bent frames, zero signs of forced entry.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Which is impossible if it was a robbery by strangers, Right,
you can't just walk through solid iron correct.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It immediately told investigators the killer or killers didn't break in,
They were let in.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That points the finger inwards, doesn't it towards someone mister
Kamal knew trusted.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Combined with the sheer brutality, the six stab wounds, the
multiple injuries, it felt personal, like rage revenge, not just
a robbery gone wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
And the forensics delivered that final chilling piece.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, the forensic report was unambiguous. The bruising on mister
Kamal's neck, the marks from the pillowcase used for strangulation.
They were inflicted after he was already dead from the
stab boys.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Someone choked a corpse.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
What confirmation? Maybe a final act of desecration. It's hard
to say for sure that it speaks volumes about the
state of mind of whoever did it. It's deeply unsettling.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So the police start digging into the family dynamics.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
And they quickly learn about the arguments, the constant friction
between mehd Hut and his father, mostly over money, and crucially,
they discover mister Kamal was taking steps steps. He was
in the process of transferring most of his assets to
his daughter. He profoundly distrusted Medhot with money.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
He saw the pattern, so Medhut potentially saw his inheritance
slipping away.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
A motive crystallizes a powerful one, and then the alibi cracked.
How Metack claimed he left the house early that Friday morning,
went about his day, met his sister at five pm.
But people in the neighbor, local residents, they saw him
leave the family home at four pm.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
An hour before he supposedly met a sister, an.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Hour unaccounted for him, right before the murder likely happened.
A crucial window hashtag tagg the truth unveiled.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
That missing hour. Where did the police look next?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
His phone records for that specific timeframe and bingo two
calls made around two pm that Friday. Who are the
calls to two young men Adele and Yakoub, both twenty two,
working low age jobs drivers laborers. Remember the description of
the first attackers.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
The two young men involved in the earlier robbery attempt,
the very same.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
The police locate Adele and Yakoob, bring them in and
a search of Adele's place turns up everything. What did
they find the stolen bank cards from the first attempt,
mister Kamal's mobile phone taken during the murder. And remember
that video camera stolen initially, Yeah, they found that too.
They tied both incidents together perfectly.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So Adele and Yakoub confessed they did.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
They admitted to the murder, but they insisted on one thing.
They didn't plan it, and hot did.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
He was the mastermind, and it recruited them.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
How he'd apparently met them at church, befriended them. He
promised them a significant amount of money, sixty thousand Egyptian
pounds each to be paid from his inheritance after his
father was dead.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
A huge sum for them, I imagine, But just money
Is that enough to convince someone to commit murder?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Probably not on its own. Manhattan knew that, so he
didn't just offer money. He offered justification. He manipulated them.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
How what did he tell them?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
He painted his father as a terrible person, claimed mister
Kamal was cheating on his mother, bringing strange women back
to the house, and using that stolen video camera to
film these encounters. He created a false narrative where killing
his father wasn't just about money, it was almost righteous
dealing with a morally corrupt man.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Wow, that's incredibly manipulative, turning parricide into some kind of
twisted justice.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
He gave them the psychological permission they needed. Perhaps still
had a practical problem those iron doors.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Right, the first plan failed because they couldn't get the
money easily. The second plan needed to overcome the physical security.
How did metaht solve that?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
His solution was horrifyingly clever because it prayed directly on
mister Kamal's love for his son.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Explain the plan?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Okay, So on that Friday, Medhot leaves the house, normally
tells his daddy's off to meet friends, standard routine h
But then just five minutes later he comes back.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
He knocks on the door and mister Kamal opens it,
expecting his son.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
He opens the inner door, yes, but what he sees
isn't just med Hot. He sees Medhot flanked by Adele
and Yakoub, and they have knives not pointed at mister Kamal.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
No pointed out Medha exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Knives to mid Hoot's throat inside the ultimate deception. The
threat wasn't agaves mister Kamal directly. It was let us
in or we kill your son right here.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Oh my god. So mister Kamal, thinking he's saving Medhot's life, he.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Opens the main security door. He does the one thing
he thinks will protect his child, and in doing so,
seals his own fate. It's pure psychological exploitation that.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Is just devastating, using a father's protective instinct as the
key to unlock his own murder.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Once inside, Adele and Yakoub overpowered, mister Kamal took him
to the bedroom and stabbed him repeatedly.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And Medhot where was he?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
He stayed back in the hall. He wasn't directly involved
in the physical act of stabbing, keeping his hands technically clean,
you could say.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
But he didn't leave it there, did he the pillowcase.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
No, After Adele and Yakub were done, MadHat himself went
into the bedroom. He took the pillowcase and he personally
choked his father's body.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
After he was already dead.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yes, He later told the accomplices he needed to be
absolutely sure this time, referencing the failure of the first attempt.
He needed that final physical confirmation.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
An act of extreme calculation and utter finality.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Than what then the cleanup. They stole cash, jewelry, items
that were actually intended for this sister, and Medhot coolly
proceeds with his plan, makes a five PM called to
his sister, establishes his alibi, spends the evening at the
ant house, and returns at ten pm to discover the
crime scene and playing the shocked grieving son hashtag tag outro.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
It's just the layers of deception are staggering. This wasn't
a crime of passion or even simple greed. It was
a meticulously planned execution.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Absolutely driven by resentment, financial desperation, sure, but executed with
chilling precision, exploiting the very core of the father son bond,
that protective instinct to achieve.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
His goal, and that final act, the post mortem strangulation.
It speaks to a level of detachment that's hard to comprehend,
ensuring the obstacle was gone permanently.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
And the ultimate irony, isn't it The very character flaws
the instability that got met Hot rejected by the US embassy.
Those were the same flaws that made his father distrust
him with money. That distrust led the father to protect
his assets by favoring the daughter, which.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Likely pushed Medhat over the edge and motivated the murder
in the first place. It's a tragic, self fulfilling prophecy.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Almost completely. His own family, by the way, disowned him
publicly even before the final core verdict came down. They
saw the truth.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
It leaves you thinking, doesn't it. How does parental love,
even if it manifests this enabling get twisted into the
very weapon used for destruction.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
That transition from enabling a child's dependency to becoming the
target of their ultimate betrayal. Yeah, foundly disturbing.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
How many years does that resentment have to build for
a son to look at his father and see just
an obstacle, something to be systematically brutally erased, something for
you to ponder
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